“The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.” Somerset Maugham

“The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.” Patrick Henry, speech in the Virginia Convention, 23 March 1775

“Those who refuse the necessary clamor for the superfluous.” Richard John Neuhaus in First Things November 2001

“I will not promise not to laugh at a rhinoceros.” G.K. Chesterton in “The Uses of Diversity”, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 3 #5 (March 2000)

“I suggest that we now relax in earnest.” Robert Farrar Capon The Supper of the Lamb

“The belief that contemporaries are aware of what history records as significant is not well-founded, which is why history has on the whole a more balanced view of the past than the past had of itself.” Jacques Barzun From Dawn to Decadence

“Good government flows more from following a few simple rules than knowing the latest in economic research. Finance ministers are better off having read Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose than the Canadian Journal of Economics.” Owen Lippert in Fraser Forum November 1997.

“the chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.” Samuel Johnson